Thread: Meade 4/24

Originally Posted by bigshaw929

It's GPS fixed location that is inaccurate on my unit. While I don't get contours I would like to mark spots but my unit has me out of water somewhere. When I first got it, it seemed to work fine now after one of the updates it's not even close.

Having a map for these lakes would be awesome. Especially for those like me still trying to learn the lakes so I stop hitting stumps

Showing you on land is pretty common as the base maps do not go into detail with small lakes and rivers. Even some of the mapping cards will do that in some areas.

Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill

Showing you on land is pretty common as the base maps do not go into detail with small lakes and rivers. Even some of the mapping cards will do that in some areas.

I took my car GPS ( garmin nuvi) on boat in a couple of small lakes, just to see how it worked. It did Fine. when driving car, it shows streams and small ponds just like they are. You would think boat GPS would do as well! ( maybe because I have lifetime updates?)

Originally Posted by HeyCharlie

I took my car GPS ( garmin nuvi) on boat in a couple of small lakes, just to see how it worked. It did Fine. when driving car, it shows streams and small ponds just like they are. You would think boat GPS would do as well! ( maybe because I have lifetime updates?)

It's not the GPS that isn't doing the job, it's the mapping software. The GPS you have in the boat does the same job as the one in your car (and vice-versa). That's just a GPS receiver getting a fix of your location from satelites and then displaying your location on a "map". If the mapping software you have installed (i.e., Navionics chart, basemap, etc.) doesn't have a certain area mapped (as with the Portsmouth lakes on our Lowrance or Humminbird plotters) you will only see blank, featureless land. You can still mark waypoints so you can go back to them when you want to, they will show that you are on land (since the lake most likely won't even show), but as far as showing the shoreline, depth, etc. you are out of luck, unless you can make your own map.

Mike

I've got a contour map for Cahoon but not meade

Panman was using dr depth creating a map for beaverdam, So can you load that onto a SD card and transfer that info to others with hummingbirds or strickly just print from a desktop?

Mike how much you gonna sell the Portsmouth ones for ?

Originally Posted by Percidae_Papermouth

I've got a contour map for Cahoon but not meade

Where did you get that? I had no idea they were available anywhere. I've seen a couple of crude outlines of the lakes, but no contours. Just curious how much detail is on your contour map.

Mike

Originally Posted by Percidae_Papermouth

Panman was using dr depth creating a map for beaverdam, So can you load that onto a SD card and transfer that info to others with hummingbirds or strickly just print from a desktop?

Yes, that is how it works. I'm glad I didn't know where to get any kind of map for either Meade or Cahoon. If I had known that, I would not have gotten into Dr. Depth. I only wish I had bought all three modules before he sold out, instead I just got the bottom contour version. He also sold a side scan and bottom hardness module (both add-ons to the basic one that I have). So far I have tried the maps I've made in both Lowrance and Humminbird units and they work great. The best benefit I get out of this stuff is seeing the lake in 3D on my desktop where I can model it and see all the nooks and crannies, channels, flats and humps.

Mike